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Mietze Dill

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“Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

tags: love, politics

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“...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

tags: self-centeredness

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“I have doubts”
― John Patrick Shanley, Doubt, a Parable

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“... before parting that night we agreed that the objects of life were to produce good people and good books.”
― Virginia Woolf, Monday or Tuesday

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“Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

tags: cliches, thinking

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SA Book & Challenge Lovers — 1921 members — last activity 22 hours, 51 min ago
Welcome to SA Book & Challenge Lovers. This book club is for anyone, not just South Africans, that love reading and doing reading challenges. Everyone ...more

Contemporary British Literary Fiction — 169 members — last activity Oct 10, 2017 09:47AM
A place to discuss the likes of Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan and Zadie Smith. I'll post reviews of some books to get things started, and ...more